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can a lightscribe disk be scanned with a scanner?

Asked by Larry Jordan

     Hi. Just found drivers for lightscribe in Linux at http://www.lightscribe.com/downloadSection/linux/index.aspx?id=814 and I'm wondering if I can scan the disk afterward. My concept here is that if I can use something like kbarcode or gnu barcode or libdmtx to create a bar code identifying myself as the owner (and maybe linking the disk to a library on my home computer), would I be able to scan and read that bar code back later? Or do lightscribe disks still react to the light after an image is burned on? (I.e. - would the scanner's light eventually turn the whole thing black and unreadable?)

    I've never used lightscribe before and am not familiar at all with the concept.

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Vihar (vmankov) said : 		#1

I doubt there'll be a damage during scanning the lightscribed disk since the laser power of writing should be much higher than this in the scanning process.
Anyway you can check it with some not so important disk that you burned.

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